Is it just me or is everyone and their grandma updating their privacy policies right now?

You have to admit, “media assassin” sounds orders of magnitude cooler than “influencer”

Here’s part 1 of my look at what the heck to do when you want to pull your business off of a social media platform. Spoiler alert: the answer is not, “delete your account in a fit of rage” 😉 www.theradicalmarketer.com/this-online-...

This drops tomorrow! Paid subscribers will get more peeks behind-the-scenes of our FB departure, too!

The fact that he’s scared enough to make these kind of threats is a sign that we should absolutely get Mamdani and humans like him into office

A Mercury reporter at the ICE facility notes the number of protesters has grown since Friday, now that Portland is aware of plans to dispatch hundreds of National Guard troops to the city. ICE and other federal agents have deployed less-lethal weapons at least once tonight.

BREAKING NEWS: Oregon sues Trump administration over unlawful federalization of National Guard. Read more.

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

This only happens to you once

Tim Curry can play anything, the fact that he gets this line out instead of losing his shit laughing is proof

targeted retaliation watch yer shit, folx

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

Writing about the TikTok deal has shown me that oooof, I can't read about these things all the time. I would just be constantly furious to the point of being non-functional. Case in point: www.npr.org/2025/09/26/g...

Planning the official exit of @upsweptcreative.bsky.social from Facebook, and it feels great and not at all cathartic. There are... a lot of steps.

Peace out from Substack, y’all. All the cool kids are doing it.

Having spent awhile building my BSky feed, I’ve collected some interestingness, but I still miss the liberal sprinkling of goofy and wholesome things that used to crop up on my Twitter feed. Any recommendations for me to follow? Is the world so heavy that we just can’t anymore?

KGB: Do you know why you are here? CHOTINER: wait, in American version of this format normally I am the one doing the questions KGB: yes, mr Chotiner, but in Soviet Union, government official interview *you*

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Some would say we have Condé Nast to thank for Trump even having a political career

Well, this sure is a choice.

half-remembering that thing about how most Roman citizens experienced the fall of Rome as simply one day their local bridge went out and nobody came around to repair it

Will TikTok creators in the US still get platform monetization like the creator rewards program? So far it hasn’t been mentioned in the split! New from @sarahgiffrow.bsky.social www.theradicalmarketer.com/the-u-s-tikt...

Tylenol ain't taking this shit From tylenol.com

This doesn’t mean we can trust Disney, but it DOES show that collective action works! ✊

Need a Monday pick-me-up? Here's what you get if you look up the Tesla showroom where we held Seattle's first #teslatakedown protests ✊🙌 Remember: Every act of rebellion pushes our lines forward. And you have friends everywhere.

Who wants to start a commune together??

Why is anyone continuing to trust LLMs

“should we reach out to Trump voters” conversations are always a mess because they’re just a bunch of people talking past each other one side is like, why are you trying to reach the hardcore MAGA base and the other side is like, why would you not want to flip the marginal voters both are correct

Timeline cleanse.

Lemme spell it out. Trump's only leverage over Jimmy Kimmel and ABC came from FCC regulation. His direct power over H1-B visas gives him similar leverage over tech, higher ed, and others.

I did my dive into the U.S. TikTok deal, and boy, it looks bleak. Well, unless you like having your media heavily regulated like China does. It drops in a few days, so sign up before Tuesday A.M.: www.theradicalmarketer.com

I have just a couple of openings for website projects in Q4. If your org needs a more approachable online experience, hit me up: upsweptcreative.com

it's also really important to spread the "this is illegal" message as far as you can because the majority of people are not exposed to it! most people do not even know the government is doing the illegal thing it's doing, let alone that it's illegal. when they learn about it they get mad!

I love the concept behind the opening sequence for Peacemaker, and I’m stoked that they kept with the weird choreographed dance for Season 2, but man, they were never going to find better than that Wig Wam song.

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

Again, the big four major media networks have been lobbying the trump administration to eliminate the last few media consolidation limits we have, including a rule preventing the four of them from merging that takes precedent over democracy, ethics, integrity, or having any sort of backbone

still VERY annoyed when the choices an app gives me for some crappy "A.i." update are "remind me later" or "try it out" how about "HELL NO NEVER"

I can tell I’m getting old because the 9pm dinner reservation is just SO LATE that I look at dates three weeks out and enthusiastically smash the button for a 4:30pm time slot.

I watched the clip that Jimmy Kimmel apparently got put on indefinite hiatus for, and his comments were accurate and, frankly, harmless. If you have some anger you want to use productively, help flood ABC’s inboxes.

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

I’m pulling together a quick overview of the TikTok deal for The Radical Marketer. What do y’all have questions about? What are the most important aspects of it for leftist folks?

Deeply unsurprised by this news—if you hadn’t started making your TikTok exit plans in January, best start making them now

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

This week, I wrote about using your platform to advance social justice, and why Ms. Rachel is a total badass: www.theradicalmarketer.com/using-social...

There’s a certain irony to a presenter at an accessibility conference sharing a presentation slide that has way too much (extremely small) text on it.